“Two more UK energy suppliers stop trading on gas price hit”

Sep 23, 2021 | In the news

I jumped on the bandwagon 20 years or so ago, shopped around and changed my ‘phone provider from BT to NTL. This was in pre-broadband days when the internet came through your ‘phone line (kids ask your parents). They were a nightmare, went bust a couple of years later, and I had to go back to BT with tail between legs; which was a complicated and time-consuming process, needless to say. Since then, I’ve ignored all those who’ve triumphantly told me they’ve saved a tenner a month by changing their electric/gas/oil/mobile supplier every fortnight, and stayed with BT/Vodafone/SSE etc. through thick and very often thin. Wasn’t it all so much easier when it was the Gas Board (kids etc.)?

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.